Originally from Galicia, Spain. Graduated in Computer Science by the University of A Coruña, where started working in the MADS Research department while doing some games as side projects, like www.wonsters.com. Moved to New York state in 2011 as Web Engineer in Agora Games to work on some of the Major League Gaming web apps. In 2012 has been building www.dio.com in Linden Lab, San Francisco.

Mario Izquierdo is Giving the Following Talks

Believe in Erlang in Games

Noah, Mario and James will deliver a three-part talk.

Part 1: Noah Gift will talk about how he believes in Erlang and how that factors into hiring, architecture and business dollars and cents at a game company.

Part 2: Mario Izquierdo will take you for a deep dive into a RabbitMQ integration into a Rails game architecture, DIO, and how Erlang "made it scale".

Part 3: James Mayfield will go into the evolution of an AI game written in Erlang as it went from prototype to "shipped".

Talk objectives: To explain how Erlang fits into game and web development in games.